My little starter kit for courtship and family, with a Habsburg twist... Coming October 15

Wow! BEAUTIFUL 🇧🇷 Brasilian edition of THE HABSBURG WAY released yesterday by Editora Ecclesiae!! (Check it out before X is shut down there 😥) Thanks for heads-up, Lucas M. livrariadoalam.com.br/a-moda-habsbur…

Here are the covers of my book in 🇬🇧English, 🇮🇹Italian, 🇸🇮Slovene and 🇧🇷 Portuguese. Other editions coming (🇭🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷 etc). PLEASE, 🇪🇸 Spanish readers in the publishing sector - I am surprised no publisher has secured the rights so far...

A very hearty welcome to new Colleague at the 🇻🇦 Holy See, 🇪🇺 EU Ambassador Martin Selmayr - very appropriate surroundings, too

IO BÁKCHAI, IO BÁKCHAI

Ever now and then I get blown away by what GREAT STAMPS (!) the Order of Malta produces. A privilege for a stamp collector to be accredited 😁

Klimt Eastwood.

Some first meetings with new Ambassadors are just great! After 2 hours 🇮🇱 Israeli Ambassador Yaron Sideman and I looked up and could have continued for hours. All the best for your upcoming credentials with the Pope!

✈️ | The Pope is on board the papal plane. The longest trip of his pontificate is about to begin. 📷Antonio Spadaro

Not all doors leading to magical places are in cupboards, some are tiny, grey and near the Colosseum. Through a steep spiral staircase you climb down into a silent nymphaeum from the time of Augustus. A relaxing sea-themed room with mussels embedded in the walls.

The gift - and the curse - of being a diplomat is that you can, very often, see both sides of a conflict. It is built into our DNA. It enables us to be bridges and mediators. But it's frustrating that you can't be as righteously furious about causes as you used to be before.

Meeting with Grand Master of the Order of Malta John Dunlap (r.) and Grand Chancellor Riccardo Paternò, to prepare their upcoming official visit to 🇭🇺 Hungary! And yes, that's one of the ORIGINAL Maltese Falcons from the Bogart movie (property of the GM)

She was one of the Messengers of the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in #Budapest, 2021.

It's quite something, this town